MARCUS WEBB
Co-Founder & CTO
I build companies from first commit to Series B. Three startups, two exits, one
still going. Currently scaling Patchwork from 8 to 80 engineers.
marcus@marcuswebb.dev · Austin, TX · marcuswebb.dev · GitHub: https://github.com/marcuswebb · LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marcuswebb · Twitter: https://twitter.com/marcuswebb

ABOUT
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I've been the first engineer three times. Each time I learned something
different: how to ship when nobody's watching (startup #1), how to build a team
that survives hypergrowth (startup #2), and how to say no to features that would
kill you (startup #3). I write code every day, and I'll keep writing code as
long as someone lets me.

EXPERIENCE
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Co-Founder & CTO — Patchwork  ·  Austin, TX
2022 – Present
  Developer infrastructure for multi-cloud deployments. Series B ($42M raised).
  Grew engineering from 2 to 38.
  • Architected a deployment orchestration engine processing 14K deploys/day
  across AWS, GCP, and Azure with 99.97% success rate.
  • Hired and structured three engineering teams (platform, product,
  reliability) with a 94% annual retention rate.
  • Led the technical due diligence for Series A and B; both closed in under 6
  weeks.
  • Open-sourced the core scheduling algorithm; 5.2K GitHub stars in the first
  year.
  Go · Rust · Kubernetes · Terraform · gRPC

VP Engineering → CTO — Lattice (acquired by Rippling, 2022)  ·  San Francisco, CA
2018 – 2022
  Employee #4 at an HR-tech startup. Promoted from VP Eng to CTO during Series
  C.
  • Scaled engineering from 6 to 120 across four offices while maintaining a
  deploy-to-production cadence of 40+ times/day.
  • Built the real-time analytics engine powering the performance review product
  used by 4,000 companies.
  • Led the SOC 2 Type II certification effort; completed in 5 months with zero
  critical findings.
  • Negotiated the technical integration plan for the Rippling acquisition,
  covering 200+ microservices.
  TypeScript · React · Node.js · PostgreSQL · AWS

Co-Founder & CTO — Stacktrace (acquired by Datadog, 2018)  ·  San Francisco, CA
2015 – 2018
  APM startup focused on distributed tracing for microservices. Acquired by
  Datadog for $28M.
  • Wrote the first 80K lines of code: a distributed tracing agent in Go that
  ran in production at 200+ companies.
  • Grew from 0 to $3.8M ARR in 30 months with a 4-person engineering team.
  • Led the technical integration with Datadog's APM suite post-acquisition.
  Go · Kafka · ClickHouse · Kubernetes

Software Engineer, SRE — Google  ·  Mountain View, CA
2012 – 2015
  Site reliability for Google Cloud Storage. On-call for a service handling 2M+
  rps.
  • Designed and implemented the automated capacity planning system for GCS,
  reducing over-provisioning by 22%.
  • Built the internal load-testing framework used by 12 SRE teams.
  C++ · Python · Borg · Spanner

NOTABLE PROJECTS
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deploy-graph — Creator · Maintainer  (2023–)
  https://github.com/patchwork/deploy-graph
  Open-source deployment DAG scheduler with dependency resolution, rollback, and
  multi-cloud support. 5.2K stars, used in production by Vercel and Render.
  Tech: Go, gRPC, Raft

traceroute.rs — Creator  (2017)
  https://github.com/marcuswebb/traceroute-rs
  High-performance distributed tracing agent in Rust. The kernel of what became
  Stacktrace's core product before the Datadog acquisition.
  Tech: Rust, eBPF

STACK
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Languages: Go, Rust, TypeScript, Python, C++
Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Nomad
Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka, Redis, Spanner
Leadership: Team building, M&A integration, Board reporting, Technical due diligence, SOC 2

EDUCATION
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BS, Computer Science — Georgia Institute of Technology  (2012)
  Faculty Honors, Dean's List (all semesters).

TALKS & WRITING
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Building teams that survive hypergrowth — LeadDev Austin  (2024)
  Keynote on engineering org design during rapid scaling.

Why we open-sourced our core algorithm — KubeCon NA  (2023)
  Talk on the business case for open-sourcing infrastructure tooling.

From SRE to CTO: what Google taught me about startups — SREcon Americas  (2022)